Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Federal support, funding opportunities, and advice were the topics of discussion at a Virginia Union University (VUU) webinar about STEM research at Historically Black colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Moore listed numerous NSF scholarships and programs beneficial to HBCU research in fields including STEM, data science, and computing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

s leading producer of Black STEM graduates; received record research and sponsored programs contracts and grants; and produced a $2.4 A&T as an engineering professor, Martin subsequently stepped into the roles of college dean and vice chancellor for academic affairs. in electrical engineering at Virginia Tech. Joining N.C.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 19, 2023

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology received research misconduct allegations against Ram Sasisekharan in 2019. This spring, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finally announced it had exonerated Ram Sasisekharan, a biological engineering professor, after a three-and-a-half-year research misconduct investigation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Dipayan Banerjee Institution: Georgia Institute of Technology Graduate Program: Ph.D., Operations Research Education: B.S., Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University; M.S., Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology Mentors: Dr. Alan Erera and Dr. Alejandro Toriello, H.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine found increased soft skills competencies in students whose medical education was integrated with the humanities and arts. “We are emphasizing that even if the technology is good, success hinges on capturing human interest and fostering widespread human adoption.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Preparing STEM-focused professionals to see the world through technological, human, societal, and cultural lenses is distinctive, especially when so brilliantly coupled with WPI’s research and innovation ecosystem.” in polymer materials from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, and a Ph.D. Wang holds a B.S. and an M.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 26, 2024

Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday that it has approved nearly $25 million in grant funding to promote diversity and sustainability within the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) workforce.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This finding comes from the study “HBCU Enrollment and Longer-Term Outcomes,” by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform (AISR) at Brown University, an education research and reform institute focused on understanding the consequences of and reducing educational inequity. million Black students who took the SAT between 2004 and 2010.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 4, 2023

The Expanding AI Innovation through Capacity Building and Partnerships, or ExpandAI program , will focus on building capacity for AI research by scaling up existing programs at MSIs and establishing education centers at those that do not currently offer AI curricula. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate; U.S

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Creating optimal pre-lab videos The applicability of pre-lab videos span across a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) laboratory-based disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and engineering. 2006; Saxena et al., 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Lim is now leading the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) into the future. That began my pathway forward and my love of engineering.” in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

One of the benefits of enrolling in college rather than university in Canada is the opportunity to gain paid research work that combines on-campus learning with applied research work that brings the lectures and lessons to life in real-world applications. Some 600 students are presently involved in paid applied research activity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Carver Professor of Engineering at the University of Iowa College of Engineering. Her research has also included co-curricular STEM education and its role in undergraduate identity formation. in industrial engineering from the University of Michigan; a B.S. in management engineering from Claremont McKenna College.

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Campus Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

1, 2023, of its Dillard Science and Engineering Research Center (SERC), which will house a research molten salt nuclear reactor, currently being designed. The facility will allow graduate and undergraduate students to contribute to "world-class research and groundbreaking technology," the university said.

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The PIE News

APRIL 12, 2024

Harvard University is the top-performing institution globally, top in 19 disciplines, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology with 11, the University of Oxford with four top rankings. India meanwhile has five new entries and is “soaring” with a 19% rise in ranked entries and 17% boost in overall performance. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Army officer has previously served as a research faculty member and principal investigator in the Advanced Concepts Laboratory at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI); chief of GTRI’s advanced warfighting technologies division; vice president for strategic development at Hopewell Designs Inc.;

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC), an organization made up of four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), is planning to launch a new institute in an effort to increase the number of engineers from underrepresented communities, using a $1.5 million investment from the A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation.

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

In January 2022, Wiline Pangle, PhD, a faculty member in the Department of Biology at Central Michigan University (CMU), collaborated with 14 of her colleagues to create an innovative new program aimed at equipping students with often overlooked yet essential skills needed in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) careers.

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University Business

JANUARY 6, 2023

billion on research and development in math, science, engineering and other major fields during FY 2021, an increase of $3.4 Campus leaders also reported increases in state and local contributions though nonprofit spending dropped, according to the latest Higher Education Research and Development Survey. University of Texas M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The experienced DEI champion was previously the inaugural vice president of diversity and inclusion at Michigan Technological University. He also serves on the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy Advisory Council.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Bridging the gap between community colleges and STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) professions, Stanford University’s student-run Community College Outreach Program (CCOP) is launching research internships and summer boot camps for aspiring students. Science is hard and research is really hard.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

The pandemic in 2020 accelerated the adoption of learning technologies in education. Inevitably, the quality of student learning has taken center stage, and with it is an emerging focus on changing teaching and learning pedagogy and harnessing technology to deliver new modes of learning (APLU). Research in healthcare (Kobayashi et al.,

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The PIE News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Yuekang Li, a Chinese citizen, was accepted onto a PhD program in Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo in April 2022, but his application for a study permit was delayed due to ongoing background checks. He added that some were being flagged who hadn’t studied sensitive subjects.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The two-year commission convenes leaders in education and business to chart a course for how artificial intelligence, or AI, is used in classrooms and how to prepare a workforce that is being transformed by technology. Henry McMaster “When used correctly, AI is a powerful tool capable of reshaping our education system,” said McMaster. “By

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Campus Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has announced a slate of actions across government, philanthropy, industry, education, research, and community organizations aimed at eliminating systemic barriers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM).

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 28, 2024

Creating optimal pre-lab videos The applicability of pre-lab videos span across a variety of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) laboratory-based disciplines including biology, chemistry, physics, anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and engineering. 2006; Saxena et al., 2006; Greene, 2020; Topping, 2014).

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 21, 2023

Duke University is taking action to advance racial and social justice by investing in community-engaged research. All of the projects will touch on one or more of the research areas, and four will also focus on promoting STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) education and career opportunities to underrepresented students.

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HEPI

APRIL 18, 2024

Simonetta Manfredi, Professor of Equality and Diversity Management and Director Research, Innovation and Enterprise at Oxford Brookes University. It has been said that the translation of research into profitable and impactful businesses is one of ‘Higher Education’s best-kept secrets’! Here are some of our findings.

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The PIE News

JUNE 2, 2023

University of California, Berkeley and Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology will expand educational and research exchanges in technology under a new agreement. The five-year agreement focuses on computer science, biotechnology, chemistry, mechanical engineering and basic scientific exploration partnership.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are a few of the innovative designs developed by researchers for people with disabilities at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). The researchers developed PURE over the last five years with grant funding from the National Science Foundation.

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HEPI

MARCH 3, 2024

On learning about the focus of the discussion, we chatted about the use of Generative AI tools amongst her peer group, and she wondered why my contemporaries were so flustered by this latest advance in technology. In this way, there has always been a next generation technology ; I have always been riding the wave of technological change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 24, 2023

The program will also include a formal creativity training component to spur student innovation on new materials technologies. With machine learning and artificial intelligence taking over a larger role in research, it means that many tasks aren’t being performed by humans as much anymore,” Maschmann said. “So,

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Insight Into Diversity

AUGUST 25, 2023

Researchers at Christopher Newport University (CNU) have received a grant from the National Science Foundation to explore how gender, race/ethnicity, and social identity impact STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) faculty experiences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Multiple academic studies have demonstrated that encouraging children to pursue a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) career gives them a distinct business advantage later in life. As the world becomes increasingly digitalized and reliant on technology, the demand for STEM skills and careers is growing rapidly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

Ying Huang Ying Huang has been named director of undergraduate research at North Dakota State University. Huang holds a bachelor’s degree from Guangzhou University in China, a master’s from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China, and a Ph.D. from the Missouri University of Science & Technology, all in civil engineering.

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University Business

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Since the pandemic, the increased reliance on digital technology, such as virtual meetings and online learning, has created additional pathways enabling bad actors to access confidential student and employee data. The institution offers a range of courses under the umbrella of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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